Abel Burja

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Abel Burja (also Bürja, Buria, Burgeat ; born August 30, 1752 in Kiekebusch near Berlin ; † February 16, 1816 in Berlin) was a mathematician and member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin.

Life

Abel Burja came from a French Reformed Huguenot family . He received his education at the College francaise (French grammar school) in Berlin, where he also worked as a teacher from 1770 to 1779.

Then he went to Saint Petersburg , where he worked as a tutor for the Tatitschef family and as a French Reformed preacher. On May 24, 1781 he married Catherine Julienne Maß with whom he had a son and two daughters.

In 1784 he returned to Berlin and accepted the office of preacher at the French Friedrichstadtkirche . He became a full member of the mathematics class of the Academy of Sciences on January 29, 1789. In 1793 he resigned his church offices and became professor of mathematics at the royal. Knight Academy . In addition to mathematics, Burja also dealt with optical telegraphy in the 1790s . He developed a telegraph code for a system based on flags or torches and described a device with which individual letters could be transmitted over several kilometers through backlit templates. From 1794 he was an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg .

From 1800 to 1810 he was an inspector at the Collège français . From 1810 he held lectures at the Alma Mater Berolinensis (today Humboldt University in Berlin ). He died on February 16, 1816 in Berlin.

Works

  • Phédon ou Dialogues Socratiques sur l'Immortalité de l'Ame écrit en Allemand par Moise Fils de Mendel, et traduit par Burja, Berlin, 1772
  • La petite philosophie, ou principes de l'art de bien penser, de bien dire, et de bien faire, Petersbourg, Leipsic, 1784.
  • Le prix de la liberté religieuse et civile, Berlin, 1785.
  • The self-learning Algebrist, or clear instructions for the entire art of arithmetic, which includes arithmetic and common algebra as well as differential and integral calculus, Berlin; Libau, Lagarde & Friedrich. 1786
  • Observations d'un voyageur sur la Russie, la Finlande, la Livonie, la Curlande et la Prusse, Maastricht, Jean-Edme Dufour & Ph. Roux, 1787 (extraits en ligne).
  • The self-teaching geometer, or clear instructions for the art of measuring, which contains both the actual geometry and the plane and spherical trigonometry, along with instructions for leveling and land measurements, Leipzig, Koechly. 1787
  • Basic theories of statics or that part of mechanics which deals with the equilibrium of solid bodies and machines, Berlin; Liebau, Lagarde & Friedrich, 1789
  • Basic teachings of hydrostatics or that part of mechanics which deals with the equilibrium of water, air, and all liquid materials in general, as well as with the machine based on this equilibrium, Berlin, Liebau, Lagarde & Friedrich, 1790.
  • Fundamental doctrines of dynamics, or that part of mechanics which deals with solid bodies in a state of motion, Berlin, Lagarde, 1791
  • Basic doctrines of hydraulics or that part of mechanics which deals with the movement and resistance of liquid matter, Berlin, FT Lagarde, 1792.
  • Basic principles of hydraulics, or that part of mechanics that deals with the movement of liquid matter, Berlin, 1792
  • Instructions for optics, catoptrics and dioptrics. 1793
  • Description of a musical timepiece. 1790
  • Treatise on telegraphy or telex writing, Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1794
  • Textbook of Astronomy, Berlin, Schöne, 1794–1796
  • The mathematical painter or thorough instruction on perspective using various methods, along with an appendix on theatrical perspective and the description of a new perspective instrument, Berlin, Schöne, 1795
  • The pasilalia or short outline of a general language, for the convenient both written and oral communication of thoughts among all peoples, Berlin, Duncker, etc. Humblot, 1809.

literature

  • Horst Drogge: The development of optical telegraphy in Prussia and its pioneers. In: Archive for German Postal History. Issue 2/1982, Verlag für deutsche Postalgeschichte, Frankfurt 1982, p. 5f.
  • Volker Aschoff : From Abel Burja to the fan “a la Telegraph”. In: Archive for German Postal History. Issue 1/1981, Verlag für deutsche Postalgeschichte, Frankfurt 1981, pp. 107-108
  • Moritz Cantor :  Burja, Abel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 620 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Horst Drogge: The development of optical telegraphy in Prussia and its pioneers. Pp. 5-6
  2. ↑ Volker Aschoff: From Abel Burja to the fan "à la Telegraph". Pp. 107-108
  3. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Abel Burya. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 7, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Burja, Abel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bürja, Abel; Buria, Abel; Burgeat, Abel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiekebusch near Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1816
Place of death Berlin